Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenDavis/Barnier press conference - Snap summaryEU and UK agree terms of Brexit dealAfternoon summary 5.42pm GMT It’s been apparent for a long time that the obtaining of data, the use that can be made of it, for commercial or political purposes, is a goldmine for those who wish to breach the

The government needs to rethink its approach if there is to be any hope of a successful strategy for Muslim communitiesMore than 10 years ago, David Cameron, then leader of the opposition, declared that integration was “a two-way street”. As head of a detoxified Conservative party, he affirmed that we could aspire to be a more united country if we

IT has been more than a year since I published my report on opportunity and integration, in which I warned the Government we were sleepwalking into an increasingly segregated country. I was then the Integration Tsar and what my study — commissioned by David Cameron and Theresa May — discovered was a country drifting apart. […]

Since Theresa May lost her majority, her government has struggled to create legislation. Leaving the EU makes it look busyWhat is the government up to? Not very much, according to research out on Monday. Some serious number-crunching by the Times has revealed that Theresa May’s government is the most inactive for at least two decades. The number of votes

David Cameron and George Osborne are celebrating this week. But their austerity programme has left lives in ruinsThey say that a picture looks different, depending on the viewers’ perspective. The same can be said for politics. The continuing, unprecedented cuts to Britain’s public services, for example, will appear quite different to a disabled person

THERESA May is being advised by David Cameron on her EU negotiations for a Brexit trade deal, it has emerged. The PM was bitterly hostile towards her predecessor on her arrival in No10, ripping up his policies and sacking most of his staff. But one of the ex-Tory leader’s close confidantes has revealed the pair […]

All George Osborne’s great project has done is destroy growth, and escalate poverty. Is that what austerity was for?Congratulations, everyone! We did it! The deficit has been eliminated! George Osborne, the architect of austerity, emerged from one of his non-jobs as the editor of the London Evening Standard to tell us all it was a “remarkable national

Mrs May has left it perilously late to become an advocate of pragmatic compromiseWho says Theresa May can’t do the vision thing? In her big speech on Friday, the prime minister articulated a goal that is noble, ambitious – and wholly fantastical. “We must bring our country back together, taking into account the views of everyone who cares about this issue,

Rolling coverage of Theresa May’s Brexit speech, with reaction and analysisMay’s speech - Snap summary 5.26pm GMT Frances O’Grady, the TUC’s general secretary, says Theresa May is still not being honest with people about the impact of Brexit.The PM wants working people to "face the fact" that the UK won't get everything it wants in negotiations. But she

A council bankruptcy exposes how the Treasury hijacked devolution as a way of palming off responsibility to local councils for making cuts, while keeping the power to make policy. That has to changeNorthamptonshire county council’s bankruptcy was made in Downing Street. Up and down the country there are increasing numbers of local examples of the ruinous

TORY chiefs are planning an away-day “bonding session” for every single MP in a desperate bid to reunite a party divided by Brexit. Tory chair Brandon Lewis and No.10 plan a day-long event this Spring – the first since a pre-Referendum get together under David Cameron before the EU Referendum. A date was set for […]

Theresa May is right to criticise current tuition fees. The whole system needs overhaulingBritain’s student loan scheme is the worst public-sector project in modern history. It has put the nation’s graduates ?100bn in the red, currently predicted to rise to ?330bn by 2044, of which three-quarters will not be repaid. The rest is dumped on the taxpayer. This

AN ID forger had a fake David Cameron driving licence with the address as No?10. Dragoz Dragomir, 34, used the photocard to plug his forgery skills to fellow Romanian con artists. Those fraudsters ran a ?1million scam “selling” non-existent goods on sites such as eBay and they wanted bank accounts to launder the cash. Dragomir […]

A BULLINGDON Club member accused of attending a party where women were allegedly groped during a port-fuelled night out is a member of the secretive Piers Gaveston Society, it has been revealed. Antonio Gottardello, 20, has been tied to the club – which became infamous after allegations that David Cameron performed an obscene act with […]

A SENIOR Labour MP sparked uproar last night by suggesting Theresa May doesn’t fully understand the problem of child sexual abuse because she is not a mum. In an interview with Parliament’s The House magazine, former Shadow Minister Sarah Champion said David Cameron “got it” as an issue because he was “a dad”. The Rotherham […]